Aug

31

GoDaddy Unblocked in China

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After a week hiatus, GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name host, is back online in China. According to my early report, GoDaddy.com was blocked during the Olympics to prevent Chinese nationals from registering domain names after the names of Chinese athletes who won (Gold, Silver or Bronze) in the Olympics. The Chinese government has a [...]

Aug

22

GoDaddy Blocked in China

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GoDaddy, the largest ICANN-accredited domain registrar in the world, appears to blocked in Mainland China by the evil Net Nanny before the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games came to a close. A screen copy of the command “tracert www.godaddy.com” shows that the problem is a router inside China Telecom. The current blocking may be related to [...]

Aug

5

Top Ten Best PlayStation Games

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The PlayStation was launched in Japan on December 3, 1994, North America on September 9, 1995. Sony enjoyed a very successful launch with titles of almost every genre, including Battle Arena Toshinden, Twisted Metal, Warhawk, Air Combat Philosoma, and Ridge Racer. Almost all of Sony’s and Namco’s launch titles went on to spawn numerous sequels. [...]

Aug

4

Websites Unblocked in China

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It seems that the Chinese Wikipedia is unblocked in China now. The unblocking of the Chinese Wikipedia in China has probably been extended to cover the whole of China. Chinese users have direct access Chinese Wikipedia from very different corners of the country. Not only with Chinese Wikipedia, this unblocking also looks like this was [...]